Forward Insights provides independent, insightful market and
technical research, consulting and information services focusing on
semiconductor memories and solid state storage. The company offers unparalleled
depth and understanding of the strategic, market and technical complexities of
the semiconductor memory landscape.

Editor:- January 15, 2014 - "In the 2D
planar era, the basic underlying floating gate technology (with a few
exceptions) was essentially the same amongst all the NAND flash manufacturers,
however in the 3D era (which has recently begun) all
NAND flash memory
manufacturers are developing different 3D architectures" said Gregory Wong, President,
Forward
Insights in a recent email introducing a new market report ($5,499) called
How 3D
NAND Stacks Up (outline pdf) - which is co-authored with
NaMLab (Nano-electronic Materials
Laboratory) - in Dresden, Germany.

The new report describes the
various different approaches to 3D NAND design and provides an independent view
of the technical challenges which memory vendors have to solve to deliver
viable competing memories at different geometries.

Editor:- March 15, 2016 - Despite all the
efficiency gains
(doing more with less) we've been seeing due to
SSD-aware software
slashing away at the waste in utilization within
storage and
memory
virtualization stacks - the enterprise SSD market is still growing.

Gregory Wong,
President,
Forward
Insights says that Enterprise SSD petabytes doubled YoY in the China
market in 2015. While at the same time - shipments of all types of SSDs grew 3x
faster in the China market than the overall worldwide market.

Editor's
comments:- Greg was coy about giving me exact numbers when I asked - which
is why you got ratios instead in the story above - but you will be able to
find raw numbers in his new report -
Opportunities in
China's SSD Market - which will be published next month. Whoops - I forgot
to ask the price. Most of Forward Insights'
past SSD reports
have been in the region from around $5K to $10K.

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"Advanced decoding
schemes employing soft decoding use the NAND statistics and soft information to
determine the most probable read signal that corresponds to the actual stored
data."